We noted recently that a New York Times story about the waterboarding of two Al-Qaeda detainees included a bit of media criticism. The Times mentioned that in 2007, ABC featured an interview with former CIA officer John Kiriakou, who claimed that “Abu Zubaydah had undergone waterboarding for only 35 seconds before agreeing to tell everything he knew.” This would be hard to square with what we now know–that Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times. The Times pushed the story further on today’s front page, with Brian Stelter putting the focus squarely on that 2007 ABC report and the effect it had […]